Build and Analyze

Dan and Marco discuss the stress of Instapaper 4.0's release, the Cingleton conference in Montreal, Google Dart, the iPhone 4S, and iOS 5's "Cleaning..." behavior.

Dan and Marco discuss Steve Jobs and Apple's future, the iPhone 4S and hardware tradeoffs, how awesome smartphone cameras have transformed how we use and buy cameras, the possibility of a Siri API, and the difficulty in finding good beta testers.

Dan and Marco discuss developing for the old and new Kindles, HTC's security vulnerability and Android's problems deploying updates, iOS 5's behavior with apps' Documents and Caches directories, the sound of judgment, and how vagaries in App Review rules ultimately hurt customers.

Dan and Marco discuss the TextMate 2 announcement, second-system syndrome and architecture astronauts, knowing the business you're really in, hot laptops, and the iOS 5 GM rumors.

Dan and Marco discuss the Netflix/Qwickster split and then devote the rest of the episode to Windows 8 and Metro: how the desktop, iOS, Android, and Metro interfaces scale to accommodate more features over time, the shortcomings of gesture-based touch interfaces, Metro's adoption challenges among customers and developers, and Microsoft's possible return to their effective strategies from the 1990s.

Dan and Marco discuss management and backups of large MySQL databases, tradeoffs with Amazon S3 and EC2, Xcode's Distributed Builds, the latest iPhone rumors, sports teams, bumper stickers, theme music, and why Dave Matthews Band isn't a jam band.

Dan and Marco discuss TechCrunch (sorry), the Kindle Tablet's prospects for developers and ramifications of forking Android, Second Crack and Dropbox, clipboard history apps, Marco's new (almost-) single-computer setup, Time Machine options, and shipping a Mac Pro with emotional value.

Dan and Marco discuss Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO, HP's additional manufacturing run of TouchPads, the theoretical Amazon tablet, returning to the single-computer world when so many others are leaving it, and why it made so much sense to buy the current MacBook Pro mid-cycle.

Ryan and Marco discuss HP's discontinuation of webOS and PC hardware, why a $99 TouchPad isn't more compelling, the potential in Windows Phone 7, installing antivirus on your future Windows 8 tablet, the difficulties in changing your text editor of choice, and the results of Marco's experiment switching from TextMate to BBEdit for a week.

Ryan Irelan takes over while Dan's on paternity leave, and he and Marco discuss what Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility means for other Android device manufacturers, how this changes the future of Android, whether "Android under the hood" devices should count as Android market share, international taxation on App Store earnings, USB hubs for iPads, and decaf coffee.